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Last year, Surrey’s senior coroner, Richard Travers, ruled that Zane's "accidental death" was due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a petrol pump the family had hired to reduce flood levels at their Thameside home.

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While Zane's favourite music - including Michael Jackson's Heal the World and Where is the Love by Black Eyed Peas - was played out, guests held candles and tealights and stood for a minute's silence in his honour.

Mr Gbangbola said the event helped the family remember the "love and joy that Zane brought from the moment he was born".

"Today we reach out to the other side of pain and injustice that closed Zane's eyes, to a space where we can celebrate and remember Zane," he said.

"The things he did, those that he touched in his remarkable seven years.

"Zane was an angelic figure in life. He loved people and people loved Zane.

"He was able to bring out the best in people and he was always giving his best".

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Adding that he missed his son "every single moment of the day", Mr Gbangbola said: "To see him hurtling around a full sized BMX track on his Fireman Sam bike just after he learnt to ride, to getting Zane ready for school every morning, to lying on our backs on a trampoline watching shooting stars."

His mother Nicole Lawler said the "physical pain" of living without Zane was "so immense" that it was difficult to express how deeply they missed him.

"This time last year we were confident because we had the truth on our side and the evidence to back it up," she added. "We thought all we needed was the court to lay the truth out.

"However, we have since learnt at a shambles of an inquest how naive we have been."

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Ms Lawler said: "Some of you may secretly ask, what is the point? It won't bring Zane back.

"The point is that beyond the abstract legal right and Zane's right to life, there is a right to the truth."

Adding they were still fighting for an independent panel inquiry , similar to that of the Hillsborough inquest, she said: "Now we stand side by side as grieving families as we fight for the truth and [the Hillsborough families] fight for justice post the truth.

"We are also working together to support a change in the law, a bill will be read in Parliament by Andy Burnham on March 29 this year, so grieving families in controversial cases in the future will not have to beg, borrow and crowdfund, and that authorities are no longer able to use public money like water to fund representation to protect their reputations and will ensure that they have a legal duty to pursue the truth."